Portal vs Portcullis - What's the difference?
portal | portcullis | Synonyms |
A grandiose and often lavish entrance.
* Milton
An entrance, entry point, or means of entry.
(Internet) A website that acts as an entrance to other websites on the Internet.
(anatomy) A short vein that carries blood into the liver.
(fiction) A magical or technological leading to another location, period in time or dimension.
(architecture) A lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.
(architecture) Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of an apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment.
(bridge-building) The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
A prayer book or breviary; a portass.
(anatomy) Of or relating to a porta, especially the porta of the liver.
A gate in the form of a grating which is lowered into place at the entrance to a castle, fort, etc.
(historical) An English coin of the reign of (Elizabeth I), struck for the use of the (East India Company), and bearing the figure of a portcullis on the reverse.
Portal is a synonym of portcullis.
As nouns the difference between portal and portcullis
is that portal is portal (grandiose and often lavish entrance) while portcullis is a gate in the form of a grating which is lowered into place at the entrance to a castle, fort, etc.As a verb portcullis is
to obstruct with, or as with, a portcullis; to shut; to bar.portal
English
Noun
(en noun)- Thick with sparkling orient gems / The portal shone.
- The local library, a portal of knowledge.
- The new medical portal has dozens of topical categories containing links to hundreds of sites.
Derived terms
* nonportalAdjective
(-)- the portal vein